1. 1 LIB260: Locating Social Sciences Resources Sep 2010 http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/classes/2010/fall/powerpoint/

2. 2 Locating Social Sciences Resources Outline Primary Sources vs. Secondary Sources Understand your course reading list Finding materials from different sources: Library catalogue Electronic databases Internet resources Demonstrations Citation Management / Bibliography Generation Tools

3. 3 Locating Social Sciences Resources Primary Sources vs Secondary Sources Primary Sources: A first-hand or eye witness account of an event. Newspaper stories, speeches and other papers that individuals describe events in which they were participants or observers. Statistical data Materials that document the attitudes and popular thought of a historical time period. e.g. public opinion surveys. Records of organizations. e.g. minutes, correspondences, annual reports, etc. Personal letters, diary, etc.

4. 4 Locating Social Sciences Resources Secondary Sources are ones that interpret or analyzes primary sources. Examples: dictionaries, encyclopedias, textbooks, books and articles.

5. 5 Locating Social Sciences Resources Primary Sources Labour Union documents Speeches Personal letters Secondary Sources Research papers on evaluating and analyzing the relationship between feminist movement and labor movement in turn-of-the-century England

6. 6 Locating Social Sciences Resources Understand your course reading list Example 1 Chun, Russell (2002). Macromedia Flash MX advanced for Windows and Macintosh, Berkeley, Calif. : Peachpit Press A Book Author & Year Book Title Publisher and Place

7. 7 Locating Social Sciences Resources Understand your course reading list Example 2 Ginsberg, Leon (2000) "Conservative Approaches to Social Policy" pp. 377-92 in James Midgley, Martin B, Tracy and Michelle Livermore (eds.) The Handbook of Social Policy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. A Chapter in a Book Author of the Book Chapter Chapter’s Title The Book’s Author, Title, etc.

8. 8 Locating Social Sciences Resources Understand your course reading list Example 3 Pun, Kit-fai (2001)"Cultural influences on total quality management adoption in Chinese enterprises: An empirical study", Total Quality Management, May 2001, Vol. 12 Issue 3: 323- 342. A Journal Article Journal’s Name, Volume / Issue and Page Numbers Author and Title of the Article

9. 9 Locating Social Sciences Resources Understand your course reading list Example 4 “Blow to Confidence," South China Morning Post, April 16, 1994 A Newspaper Article

10. 10 Locating Social Sciences Resources Search Strategies (1) Use appropriate resources Library catalogue – various books, journals, video programs, etc. available at the Library Library catalogue Electronic databases – e-books, book chapters, academic journal articles, news articles, statistics, glossaries and definitions, etc. Electronic databases Full-text Databases - contains the partial or complete text of works, such as articles, books, etc Bibliographic Databases - contains descriptive information (citation and subject headings) for publications, such as books, and periodical articles, etc. Internet resources – facts, news, organizational information, statistics … Internet resources

11. 11 Locating Social Sciences Resources Search Strategies (2) Identify main concepts E.g. I want to study about how the citizenship be reflected through political participation in Hong Kong. 1. Political participation, election, etc. 2. Citizenship 3. Hong Kong. Choice of search words (related key terms/synonyms)

12. 12 Locating Social Sciences Resources Search Strategies (3) Use appropriate operators (AND / OR / NOT) and wildcards (e.g. *, !) AND: searches records that mention both search terms, this narrows the search e.g. citizenship and hong kong ( 必須同時出現 ) OR: finds records in which one or both search terms appear, this broadens the search e.g. Citizenship or vote ( 只要任何一個出現 )

13. 13 Locating Social Sciences Resources Search Strategies (4) Wildcards / Truncation: retrieves all variant endings of that word EBSCOhost: * ProQuest: * Factiva: * LexisNexis Academic: ! OPAC: * e.g. citizen* -- retrieves all words that start with CITIZEN such as citizen, citizens, citizenship etc.

14. 14 Locating Social Sciences Resources Search Strategies (5) ( )Parentheses: gives priority and order in the search statement e.g. (citizenship or voting) and hong kong Be prepared to narrow / expand your search results by using database- specific features / changing your keywords

15. 15 Locating Social Sciences Resources Demonstrations 1-Search citizenship and political and participation (political participation) and citizenship and Hong Kong ProQuest / EbscoHost ProQuest EbscoHost citizenship and political and participation citizen* and (political participat*) and Hong Kong

16. 16 Locating Social Sciences Resources Demonstrations Sociological Abstract, AgeLine (CSA) Sociological Abstract, AgeLine citizenship and political and participation older adults and voting ((older adult* or older people) or elderly) and vot* JSTOR hong kong and social change*(in article title / in abstract) CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) Subject: citizenship + keyword: hong kong

17. 17 Locating Social Sciences Resources Demonstrations WiseNews (( 香港 and 污染 ) or (hong kong and pollution)) LexisNexis Academic hong kong and pollution and protect! hong kong and (air quality) and protect! Factiva ((hong kong and pollution*) or ( 香港 and 污染 )) and (air quality)

18. 18 Locating Social Sciences Resources Research Guides Economics  http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/libserv/research_guide/index/show/ subject/Economics http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/libserv/research_guide/index/show/ subject/Economics Sociology & Social Policy  http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/libserv/research_guide/index/show/ subject/Sociology+&+Social+Policy http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/libserv/research_guide/index/show/ subject/Sociology+&+Social+Policy Political Sciences  http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/libserv/research_guide/index/show/ subject/Political+Science http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/libserv/research_guide/index/show/ subject/Political+Science

19. 19 Locating Social Sciences Resources Statistics HK Census & Statistics Dept publications (print version or electronic version: e.g. HK Annual Digest of Statistics, census reports, etc.), Datastream, IMF International Financial Statistics, UN Statistical Yearbook, China InfoBank … http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/wiki/index.php/Locating_Infor mation_at_Lingnan:_Finding_Statistics http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/wiki/index.php/Locating_Infor mation_at_Lingnan:_Finding_Statistics

20. 20 Locating Social Sciences Resources Citation Management / Bibliography Generation Tools RefWorks http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi- bin/luaccess?dbname=refworks http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi- bin/luaccess?dbname=refworks Citation Builder http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/lobo2/citationbuilder/citation builder.php http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/lobo2/citationbuilder/citation builder.php Citation and Style http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/links/pages/Research_ Methods/Citation_and_Style http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/links/pages/Research_ Methods/Citation_and_Style

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